When the Land was Young
Being the True Romance of Mistress Antoinette Huguenin and Captain Jack Middleton
By EMILY LAFAYETTE McLAWS. Bound in green cloth, illustrated cover,gilt top, rough edges. Seven drawings by Will Crawford. Size, 5x7¾.Price, $1.50
Among the entertaining romances that are based upon the colonial days ofAmerican history this novel will take rank as one of the most notable.It is picturesque in location, environment, and action; charming indetail and motive; dramatic in method; virile in characteristics; andaltogether absorbing in plot and surprises. The hero, CaptainMiddleton, of Charleston in the Carolinas, is a real man; the heroine,Antoinette Huguenin, a beauty of King Louis’ Court, is one of the mostattractive figures in romance; while Lumulgee, the great war chief ofthe Choctaws, and Sir Henry Morgan, the Buccaneer Knight and terror ofthe Spanish Main, divide the honors with hero and heroine. The time wasfull of border wars between the Spaniards of Florida and the Englishcolonists, and against this historical background Miss McLaws has throwna story that is absorbing, dramatic, and brilliant.